Huntsville gazette., 1887-12-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from variess Ssarsea.
prRsoNAL AND POLITICAL.


vrRy sensational charges are made by
yrnited Ireland to the effect that Mgr. Per-
sico,s mission to Ireland is the result Of a
baroain between the English Government
and the Pope.
THE American Minister to China, Mr.
Denbv. has written letter to Secretary
Rayard, saving that whatever concessions
had been made to the Barker Mitkiewicz
syndicate. have since been revoked by the
Chinese Government.
On the night of the 18th Mr.. Powderly's
condition was regarded as critical by
his physician. He was seized with an
other hemorrhage during the afternoon.
Since his return to his home at Scranton
he has slept very little, and he is very
nervous and restless on that account.
ON the 18th the annual meeting of the
New York State League of Anti-Saloon
Republicans convened. There was good
attendance including representative men
from all parts of the State. Sessions were
continued two days, closing with a mass
meeting.
THE new growth discovered in the
throat of the Crown Prince of Germany
is not of cancerous nature.
ON the 10th duel in Paris between M.
Edwards and NJ. Mayer, journalists, re-
suited in both being slightly wounded.
A SILVER medal has been awarded by
the Secretary of the Treasury to Henry H.
Everett, Of Chicago, for heroic services in
rescuing drowning persons during the
past few years.
On the 10Th committee OF citizens of
Utah, headed by Delegate Caine, waited
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and presented to them copies of the State
Cons titution adopted at the last Utah
convention. The Constitution makes
polygamy and bigamy a misdemeanor,
punishable by fine and imprisonment
and also provides that this provision can
not be changed without the consent of
Congress.
On the 10Th Mr.. N. NJ. Bell, superintend-
ent of foreign mails, went to New York
to meet Mr.. MacLellen, Postmas ter Gem
eral of Canada, for the purpose of nego-
tiating parcel post convention between
the United States and Canada, similar tc
those recently put in operation between
this country, Jamaica, Mexico and Ber
muda.
On the night of the 18th ex-Publit
Printer Rounds died at Omaha, Neb.
The Irish ENJOYS, Messrs Esmonde and
O'Connor, were entertained at dinner by
Senator Mcpherson at Washington on the
evening of the 17th.
CONGRESSMAN BEN BUTTERwoRTH, of
Ohio, is dangerously i'll with typhoid fever
at Washington.
BILL amendatory of tho Inter- State
Commerce act has been prepared by Con-
gresham Glover, of Missouri, extending
Government supervision, through the
commission, over inter-S telegraph
lines.
WITH the advent of Mr.. Villas into the
Interior Department it is intimated that
ex-Land Commissioner Sparks will in all
probability be called into service again.
THE Sherman element in the Republican
Club congress in New York are somewhat
depressed OYER the apparent strength of
the Blaine forces as developed in the pro-
ceedings Of the congress.
EX-CONGRESSMAN FRANK HURD, Of To-
ledo, o., has expressed a desire to go on
the National Democratic ticket next year
as company for Mr.. Cleveland.
IT is said that President Cleveland has
recently taken occasion to impress upon
several Senators and Representatives the
measures.
WARNED by the experience of the
friends Of the late A. T. Stewart. of New
York, precautions are being taken to pre-
ciude the possibility of the remains of
Mrs. John Jacob Astor being disturbed.
Two guards, engaged by the trustees of
Trinity Cemetary, and two private de-
tectives are on duty nightly at the tomb.
On the 18th Cardinal Gibbons ordained
the following priests at Baltimore Nd:
stephen Hoileran, Louisville, KY. Thomas
Kennedy, Providence, R. l.; Robert Ken
nedy, Savannah, Ga; Theodore Fallon,
Edward Doran, Charles O'Neil and Peter
Iorks, San Francisco; George Kavlor,
Allegheny, Pa, and Henry O'Gradv,
Mobile, Ala.
On the evening of the 18th Bishop Ed
mund Descaweinitz, president of the
executive board of the Moravian church
OF the American province, died suddenly
of apoplexy.
IN Philadelphia at the quarterly meet
ing of the Hibernian Society President
Cleveland, William E. Gladstone, Gov
ernors Bragg of Delaware, Beaver of
pennsylvania, Fitzhugh Lea of Virginia.
and Gordon of Georgia were elected hon
orary m embers.
On the night of the 17th the Queen of
the Gypsies was crowned at Fort George,
on the Sioux reservation in Dakota. The
Queen is Mrs. Douglass Carlin, the intell-
gent Indian Princess recently married to
a white man. The coronation was wit
messed by number of whites and hun
dreds of Indians.
ONLY six Of the thirty -eight States, as
a perusal of the Congressional directory
recently issued shows, have sent to the
Flftieth Congress Senators and Represe ent-
atIves who are all natives of the States
they represent. These States are Maine,
delaware, Maryland, North Carolina,
South Carolina and West Virginia.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
slN the night of the 18th the barn of
&c IN Becker, in Manor township, Lancas-
'ei county, Pa, was burned with all the
see sons croy and forr,, ir,,y,Ia,,,ayt, Thfr.